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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 - 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is the trumpeter when Poland is attacked?
(a) Thirty-nine or forty.
(b) Nineteen or twenty.
(c) Sixty.
(d) Ten or eleven.

2. When the Tartars reach Krakow for the attack in 1241, what do they do?
(a) Burn the outlying villages and pillage the districts around the churches.
(b) Take hostages for several weeks and then release them.
(c) Are defeated by the people of Krakow.
(d) See that is was a small city and leave.

3. Chapter 1 begins in what month and year?
(a) March, 1774.
(b) July, 1461.
(c) October, 1802.
(d) January, 1241.

4. While in the caravan, which of the stranger's orders does Joseph Charnetski follow?
(a) To take a pumpkin from the stranger.
(b) To give some of the goods from Joseph's wagon to him.
(c) To carry some of the goods for market.
(d) To take the reigns of the stranger's horse.

5. Where does Joseph find his family a place to stay?
(a) In their cousin's house back in their old village.
(b) In the same building as Elzbietka and Kreutz.
(c) In the king's palace.
(d) In the same building as Ostrovski and Kanty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ultimately happens to the trumpeter in 1241?

2. Immediately following the fight, what decision does the stranger have to make?

3. As he ponders the attack on Krakow, of what is the trumpeter proud?

4. What does the stranger offer to buy from Pan Andrew Charnetski?

5. Krakow welcomes which group of people?

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